Stolen Gas Gift Card
We often purchase Shell Gas Gift Cards from Kroger to get the 4x fuel points (not essential to the story), but we just learned a hard lesson which I will share. At a Shell station in MS I tried to ...
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Steeljag wrote:bid_time wrote:
How does someone use a gas card without the card itself? I have several gas cards, you have to present the card to be run through the scanner in order to use it. It's not like an Visa card where you can order online. The thief must have been in cahoots with a Shell gas station employee in order to make a purchase without the actual card in hand. I would think it would be pretty easy for Shell to identify what clerk(s) were working at the time of the fraud. Then you have your pool of likely suspect(s). Then time to review the video.
I am also wondering how the card info can be used without the card? Do you not need the card to enter it "swipe" it at the pump?
Anyway, sorry you lost out on your purchase !
common scam. thief steals number from a card on the rack.
thief enters number and can see when it is activated
thief then creates another card with that number on it and uses it.
Was on TV around here at xmas.
Solution is simple. Many cards now have a tear away strip over the activation number. don't buy one without an intact strip. you must remove the strip to activate at the checkout counter.
that's what we do.
